Melhania damarana
| Family: | Sterculiaceae |
| Full name: | Melhania damarana Harv. |
| Location: | Farm Urikos (2416AC) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | - |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Diffuse, densely stellato-tomentose and canescent; leaves conspicuously petioled, broadly ovate or oblong, subcordate at base, obtuse, unequally toothed, with prominent veins beneath; peduncles 1-flowered; invol. leaflets lanceolate, shorter than the lanceolate-acuminate, stellato-tomentose calyx lobes. Nearly related to M. ovata, Cav. (M. oblongata, Hochst.), but with much broader involucral leaflets. Petioles uncial. Leaves 1–1.5 inches long, 0.75–1 inch wide. Petals expanded, twice as long as the sepals. Filaments of the fertile stamens very short; anthers 3–4 times longer. Staminodia narrow-oblong, subspathulate. Style as long as the staminodia. All parts of the plant densely tomentose, with whitish or yellowish hairs. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 30 Apr 2011 |
| Camera make: | Panasonic |
| Camera model: | DMC-FZ45 |
| Lens aperture: | f/5.6 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/500 s |
| ISO speed: | 80 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
